Alternate Side Parking & Meters Suspended

Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Friday, July 4, for holiday observance.

Because July 4 is a major legal holiday, parking meter regulations are also suspended. On major legal holidays, stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect seven days a week (for example, “No Standing Anytime”).

Click here for the 2008 Alternate Side Parking Regulations Suspension Calendar

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Newly Restored Audio for Gimmel Tamuz!

The Living Archive presents: Fabrengen 11 Shevat, 5724

In this full length audio Fabrengen recorded by Rabbi Sholom Yisroel Hodakov and restored by JEM’s Living Archive restoration project, the Rebbe speaks about the special significance of the fourteenth year after the Frierdiker Rebbe’s Histalkus.

Click Here to listen to the audio on Chabad.org
Click Here here to download all the audio files in a ZIP file
Click Here to download the Kovetz Hisvaadus of this Farbrengen

Mazal Tov! – 9 Sholom Zochors this Week!

Meyer and Rochel Gurkow.
IYH at 1516 Union St, Apt 1D, [bet Albany and Troy Ave].

Gavriel and Dini (nee Pape) Avichzer.
IYH at 361 New York Ave, [bet Carroll and President St].

Aryeh and Penina Wuensch.
IYH at 9300 Harding Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33154.

Mendel and Raizel Rosenfeld.
IYH at 2941 NE 185th St, Unit 1301, Miami, FL 33180.

Dovid and Chanie (nee Hauck) Levine.
IYH at 2114 W 245th St, Torrance, CA 90501.

Mordechai and Shana Fishman.
IYH at 8632 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90035.

Sholom Ber and Nechama Farkash (Shluchim to Issaquah, WA) .
IYH at 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd, Issaquah, WA 98029.

Yossi and Sara Doba (nee Futerfas) Glick (Shluchim to Ukraine) .
IYH at 4 Cranwich Rd, Hackney, London, UK.

Menachem Mendel and Rivka Schtraks.
IYH at 19 Lynford Gardens, Edgware, Greater London, UK.

Stay tuned as we update this list as information becomes available. However, in an unfortunate event that we do not get all the Sholom Zochors this week, we are sorry. But you can help! If you know of any Sholom Zochors or Mazal Tovs you can email it to us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info! Thank You.

Chabad to Expand Facilities at Kansas University

Beth Lipoff – The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

Photo by Beth Lipoff: Chabad House currently occupies the right half of this duplex, next to the KU campus in Lawrence. It will be expanding to fill the whole duplex.

LAWRENCE, KS — After starting with just a handful of students two years ago, the Chabad House at University of Kansas has found itself bursting at the seams with nearly 40 students coming for Shabbat dinner there each week. In response, they are expanding their facilities.

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sruly Kotlarsky (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Kesselman (Detroit, MI) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Hit and Run Driver Convicted

Ryan Gierach – WeHoNews

At the scene of the accident Tuesday, August 2nd 2007, and Lindsay Ellingsworth, inset

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA — Lindsay Ellingsworth, age 27, pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a hit and run accident in which she killed a West Hollywood man on Fountain Avenue.

Lindsay Ellingsworth, age 27, pleaded no contest to charges stemming from a hit and run accident in which she killed a West Hollywood man.

Politics Failed, but Fuel Prices Cut Congestion

William Neuman – The New York Times

NEW YORK, NY — Soaring gas prices and higher tolls seem to be doing for traffic in New York what Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s ambitious congestion pricing was supposed to do: reducing the number of cars clogging the city’s streets and pushing more people to use mass transit.

In May, with gasoline at more than $4 a gallon, traffic at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s bridges and tunnels dropped 4.7 percent compared with the same month the previous year.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Boy!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dovid and Chanie (nee Hauck) Levine (Torrance, CA) on the birth of their firstborn son.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.

Photo Gallery: Preparations at the Ohel

Some of the massive generators brought in to power the air conditioning units.

LAURELTON, Queens [CHI] — The preparations at the Ohel are at the peak, after weeks of planning by the management of ‘Ohel Chabad Lubavitch’ led by Rabbi Abba Refson, to greet the tens of thousands that will come to the Tziyon of the Rebbe on Gimmel Tammuz.

More pictures in the Extended Article! (Photos by: Meir Elfasi – Shturem.net)

Mazal Tov! – 3 Thursday Night L’Chaims!

Zalmy Blachman (Crown Heights) and Shoshy Goodman (Melbourne, Australia) .
IYH at Maple St Shul, 612 Maple St, [bet Kingston and Albany Ave].

Sruly Kotlarsky (Crown Heights) and Mushka Kesselman (Detroit, MI) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].

Mendel Grossbaum (S Paul, MN) and Chaya Mushka Cunin (Westwood, CA) .
IYH at West Coast Chabad, 741 Gayley Ave, Los Angeles, CA.

To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us mazaltov@crownheights.info

Video of the Day! – My Job Description

This weeks Living Torah, titled “My Job Description” (Volume 50, Episode 199)

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Available in Hebrew, French and Russian in the Extended Article.

New Torah Welcomed to Town

Rocky Mountain News

Orthodox Jews, including Neryo Kalendarev, right, celebrate the arrival Tuesday of the Torah at DIA.

DENVER, CO — The purple-and-gold package on the Denver-bound flight from Jerusalem wasn’t a typical piece of carry-on luggage.

Its arrival Tuesday at Denver International Airport was greeted with singing, dancing and “Welcome Home Torah” signs held by members of Chabad House, a Jewish synagogue and educational center.

Mazal Tov! – Its A Girl!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Zalman and Nechama Dina (nee Yarmush) Duchman (Shluchim to Roosevelt Island) on the birth of their daughter, Chaya Mushka.

May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.

A Letter the Rebbe sent out to all Gan Yisroels

Before the summer each year the Rebbe would send out a letter to all of the Gan Yisroel’s around the world. The following is a letter that was sent on the 12th of Tammuz 5742.

The full letter can be viewed in the Extended Article!

14 Years since Gimmel Tammuz: The Pictures

Pictures of the Rebbes Levaya on Gimmel Tammuz 5754: the pain, the sorrow, the mourning, the long lines that day to pass the Rebbe, waiting for the Levaya, the Levaya, the Rabbis and public figures partaking in the Levaya, the Aron driving to the Ohel, the crowds.

Continued in the Extended Article.